A ban would also take around 16,500 autos off the city’s roads. The number of autos available after that would be merely 7,000. There are 1.5 lakh diesel cars registered in the city, which would not be allowed to ply as well.

Rajan Nanda, who became chairman of the Escorts Group in 1994 and was one of the national capital’s best known businessmen, had walked up to his father H P Nanda and told him that he wanted to drop out of college as studies did not fascinate him.

In a move which could hugely improve driving habits on city roads, the district administration has decided to set up automated track for driving licence tests, similar to the one in Delhi’s Sarai Kale Khan.